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The Java Community Process (JCP) has recently finalized a Java Specification Request (JSR) to cope with location-awareness (JSR-179) in Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC). Implementations of this specification may rely on several location methods, including satellite based methods like GPS, as well as short-range positioning methods based on Received Signal Strength (RSS). Though RSS is a good location fingerprint for indoor positioning, no standard technique to tailor RSS-based approaches to the JSR-179 API has been proposed yet. In this paper we propose such a technique, and we evaluate its effectiveness through a Bluetooth-based prototype. Specifically, we show how to extend the Java APIs for Bluetooth (JSR-82) in order to provide the Location API with RSS-based position-information. Moreover, we show how to adapt RSS-based approaches to Location-API’s semantics. Our solution is based on the insertion of a specific component into the JSR-82 API. This is in charge of producing all the information needed to build Location objects as defined in the JSR-179. We evaluate the effectiveness of the approach by examining preliminary experimental results obtained from the first system prototype.
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di Flora, C., Ficco, M., Russo, S. (2004). Indoor Positioning for Location-Aware Applications on Java-Based Mobile Devices. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Corsaro, A. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: OTM 2004 Workshops. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3292. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30470-8_53
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